“Surely Lou was Ambulance, Police or SAS… Lou was not. Lou, in his white shirt and neat dark tie, was a taxi driver”

Dow later writes: “Many images and sounds will stay with me much longer than I might like [from that day] but I am glad to have seen, and hope I never forget, just how brave and loving strangers can be.”

Meanwhile, footage has emerged of a man running into the middle of the road in an attempt to stop the driver of the car, James Gargasoulas. The man carried a bat and tried to smash the car’s windshield, as it careened crazily around central Melbourne.